Map Of London

The Map of Early Modern London has added a list of publications and presentations about, based on, or making use of the project. See the Presentations and Publications page.

The Map of Early Modern London's experimental layered version of the "Agas" map has been hidden from view while we are correcting errors in the site identifications and ward boundaries. If you wish to view the experimental map, please contact General Editor Janelle Jenstad for the URL.

Link: http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/index_neighbourhoods.php

The Map of Early Modern London has added a category for Neighbourhoods to the Index. Neighbourhoods do not lend themselves to being mapped on the “Agas” map platform underlying The Map of Early Modern London because they do not have clear boundaries. However, they were significant to the early modern imagination and are mentioned throughout the texts we cite, edit, and analyze in the project. More neighbourhoods will be added as they are mentioned in MoEML. Encyclopedia-style essays describing these neighbourhoods will be assigned to contributors. Anyone wishing to contribute, please contact Janelle Jenstad.

The Map of Early Modern London announces the publication of Paisley's Mann's essay on the early publication history of John Stow's A Survey of London.

Mann's essay was originally written for English 520, "Representations of London in Early Modern English Literature," at the University of Victoria. A companion list of all the editions of A Survey is forthcoming.

The Map of Early Modern London is pleased to announce the addition of a new category to the Index. The new category, "Livery Companies," list all of the twelve great livery companies of London and any of the lesser companies that are mentioned in the site. Items in the "Livery Companies" index link to a with a brief description of the company with links to the modern company's website.

Link: http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/render_page.php?id=ELEA1&title=Eleanor%20Cross,%20Cheapside

Link: http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/render_page.php?id=THIR1

MoEML is pleased to announce the publication of Paisley Mann's essay on "Thirty-Pound Gentlemen and the Jacobean Inflation of Honours." Mann's essay emerges from her MA coursework at the University of Victoria.

DP noticed that CHAR2 had been assigned twice (to Charles I in PERS1.xml and to Charterhouse [a site]). I have given Charles I the XML:id of CHAR4 and made the necessary changes in the only page that referred to Charles I (EXEC1).

[For my own reference, I went to the “People” page first and clicked on Charles I to find out which pages mention him. I made a note of the page's XML:id, then changed both PERS1.xml file and EXEC1.xml file. It’s important not to correct the XML:id before you’ve used the Personography to figure out the links.]

Met with JJ and LS on plans for next year on LondonMap and LS's involvement.
1) Treat authorial notes in the same way as editorial notes
2) Provide LS with a development front-end
3) include library texts in the scope of searches, and report hits somehow in the "more info" box for a given street etc.
4) Use hcmc blog postings to generate news events for a news page on the site (in preference to setting up a whole WordPress instance)
5) Add a "academic_status" metadata field to each article (student, refereed etc) and then in the GUI for each article indicate what that status is and provide link to explanatory page about statuses
6) Add Google Analytics to site

For future:
Editing the two maps

JJ asked about including dates in the personography. Now that we have a personlist and person elements, we have a lot of choice in what date elements and attributes to use. Which to use depends on what dates she wants to record for a person, how precisely and her intended uses for that information. I gave her examples of the range of possibilities supported by TEI and she will consider and then get back to me.

[[Janelle's answer: I have decided not to mark up dates in the personography at the moment. The personography is a service to users, but is not adding functionality to the Map. I suggest we focus our attention on what is innovative about the project; I would eventually like to mark up dates pertaining to place.]]